The Anti-Directory.
Stop paying legacy wedding sites for empty clicks and ghosted emails. Claim free, get leads with real budget bands and aesthetic context, and close bookings in-app — with a small fee only when you get paid.
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Zero-Risk Matching
Claim your storefront for free. We only take a small transaction fee when you secure a paid booking through the platform.
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Qualified lead inbox
Couples send guest count, budget band, their aesthetic, and category-specific details — then chat, share files, and pay invoices in one thread.
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Availability that couples see
Block dates in your portal calendar. Couples see them before they inquire — so you stop fielding requests for days you already booked.
Coming soon: seats for your whole team, the shared run sheet, verified reviews & calendar sync.
Join the waitlistThe portal opens with the couples’ app, by early September 2026. Claim now and your storefront is ready the day couples arrive.
Lumina Photography
Philadelphia, PA
New lead · Twilight Forest
Just now"Hi — Christopher & Destyni, 8-hour coverage, second shooter yes. Aesthetic matches your portfolio."
Active Leads
14
Pending Payout
$4,250
Illustration of the vendor dashboard. Lumina Photography is not a real business and the figures shown are examples, not results.
Fast onboarding
Claim your Google listing, add categories, pricing, and portfolio. Couples find a real storefront — not a blank form. Instagram/URL auto-build is coming soon.
Qualified Leads Only
Inquiries include budget band, guest count, the couple's aesthetic, and category-specific details — so you spend time on fits, not tire-kickers.
Talk, quote, and get paid in one thread
Message the couple directly, send an invoice from a saved preset, and take card payment through Stripe without leaving the conversation. No lead resale, no middleman.
Availability couples can actually see
Block the dates you're booked and couples see it on your page before they enquire — so you stop fielding requests for days you were never free.
A feed of real weddings
Post work from real events into the same community couples browse for ideas, with a link straight from your profile to your bookable page.
You hear about it immediately
Email and push the moment a couple enquires or replies, with per-type controls so you decide what is worth interrupting you. First reply time is tracked — couples book whoever answers first.
Radically Transparent Pricing.
No pay-to-play directories. No charging for dead-end leads. Choose the model that scales with your business.
Pay-Per-Booking
Perfect for growing businesses.
- ✓ Free claimed storefront + portfolio
- ✓Lead inbox, chat, files & invoices
- ✓ Category browse + budget/aesthetic context
- 3% platform fee only when you secure a paid booking.
The Veil Pro
For high-volume professionals.
Two months free — or $50/month.
- ✓ Everything in Pay-Per-Booking
- ✓ Verified badge on your storefront
- ✓ Priority placement in your categories
- ✓ Instalments that release automatically
- ○ Coming soon: the shared run sheet, verified reviews, calendar sync
- 0% platform fee. You keep exactly what you earn.
Annual Pro pays for itself once you route about $16,700 a year through the platform. Below that, stay on Free — we would rather say so.
Join the waitlistStudio
For venues and teams.
Two months free — or $149/month.
- ✓ Everything in Pro
- ✓ A seat for everyone who takes bookings
- ✓ Each person owns their own leads
- ✓ More than one location, under one roof
- 0% platform fee, same as Pro.
How many people at your company need to see a booking? One is Pro. Two or more is Studio. Seats open shortly after launch — Pro in the meantime, and you can move up without starting again.
Join the waitlistWhat you pay now
You are already paying two bills.
A listing so couples can find you, and software to run the work once they do. Our price is set against one of them — and covers both.
Small-market photographer
grosses $30–60k- Listing
- $600–1,800
- Software
- $335–348
- Together, a year
- $935–2,148
$500 on The Veil Pro
Mid-market photographer or planner
grosses $70–125k- Listing
- $2,400–5,400
- Software
- $525–600
- Together, a year
- $2,925–6,000
$500 on The Veil Pro
Wedding venue
grosses $100k–2.8M- Listing
- $6,000–12,000
- Software
- $1,668–3,600
- Together, a year
- $7,668–15,600
$1,490 on The Veil Studio
And if you are smaller than every number on this page.
Six weddings a year, on weekends, alongside a job. A listing with a floor of $600 and a twelve-month contract is not a decision you were weighing and declined — it is more than the work is worth, so the category simply has no product for you. That is most of why the good local vendors are missing from it.
There is no floor here, and nothing to decline. Claim the storefront, take the enquiries, answer them, send a contract and get paid — for nothing. We take 3% the day a booking is paid through the platform, and nothing at all in a year where none is. One wedding or forty, the arithmetic never stops working.
And you are never charged for a lead that goes nowhere.
Directory leads run $50–200 each, whether or not the couple ever replies — and the same enquiry is sold to several of your competitors at once, which is why speed of reply decides the booking. Here, the couple reaches you and nobody else, and we take 3% only when a booking is actually paid through the platform. Paid directly? We take nothing.
No contract, either.
Listings in this category are commonly sold on twelve-month terms, with renewal increases vendors say they did not see coming. Pro, annual is $500 a year — $42 a month — or $50 monthly, cancel whenever. Below roughly $16,700 of bookings a year, stay on Free; we would rather say so than sell you the upgrade.
Listing prices are not published by the companies that charge them; the figures above are what vendors report paying, compiled from 2026 industry breakdowns and current as of August 2026. Software prices are each company’s own published rates. We would rather show our working than ask you to take the comparison on trust.
The whole toolkit
Everything you get, and what it costs.
Directories charge you to be listed and then sell the same couple to your competitors. We charge nothing to list, and only take a cut when you actually get paid. Anything still in build is marked Soon— nothing on this page is a promise we haven’t already shipped.
What it costs
No listing fee, no lead fee, no contract.
- Free to list
- Claim your business, build a full storefront and take enquiries without paying anything. There is no paywall between a couple and your inbox.
- 3% only when you get paid
- On the free plan we take 3% of a booking paid through the platform. If the couple pays you directly, we take nothing. You are never charged for a lead that goes nowhere.
- Pro at $500/year — 0%
- No booking fee at all, plus the Verified badge and priority placement in your categories. Two months free against $50/month, which is also available. It pays for itself once you route about $16,700 a year through the platform — below that, stay on Free.
- We never resell your leads
- The couple who enquires with you is not simultaneously sold to four of your competitors. That is the entire business model of the directories, and it is not ours.
Getting found
- Claim your listing
- Search for your business, prove the domain is yours, and the storefront is live. Claiming takes a few minutes and nothing is published until you say so.
- Listed under everything you do
- A venue that also caters appears under both — not buried in whichever category someone guessed first.
- Portfolio & storefront
- Photos, categories, service radius, starting price and the details couples filter on, on a page that looks like a business rather than a form.
- Availability couples see first
- Block the dates you're booked. Couples see them before they enquire, so you stop declining requests for days you were never free.
- Verified badgePro
- A visible mark on your storefront and in results.
- Priority placementPro
- Pro storefronts sort above free ones in their categories, ahead of the general ranking — so the couples browsing your category see you first.
- Reviews only a paying couple can leaveSoon
- A review tied to a booking actually paid through the platform, so it cannot be bought, farmed, or left by someone who never hired you. Your Google reviews still show — these sit beside them and mean something different.
- Deeper storefront, and a page search can findSoon
- More room to show the work, on a public storefront built to rank for what couples in your area actually type.
Winning the work
- Enquiries that arrive qualified
- Budget band, guest count, date, venue and the couple's aesthetic come attached. You know before you reply whether it's a fit.
- One thread per couple
- Chat, photos and documents in one place, on the web portal or your phone — not a mail folder plus two text chains.
- Saved reply templates
- Your standard answers, one tap away. Response time is tracked, and couples overwhelmingly book whoever answers first.
- A badge for answering fastSoon
- The response time already being tracked, turned into something couples can see — so being the one who replies first counts on your storefront too.
- Invoices & deposits
- Send an invoice from a saved preset inside the thread. The couple pays by card and it lands in your Stripe account.
- Booking confirmation
- Mark a lead booked and the date blocks on your calendar automatically, so it stops appearing as available — and you appear on the couple's vendor list, where their payments and paperwork for you live.
- Deposit, balance, and everything between
- Set the real payment plan once — deposit to hold the date, balance on the day. The couple sees what's coming in their own budget instead of asking you for a reminder.
- Contracts signed in the app
- Send the agreement, the couple signs it with a finger, and you get the signed record with the date, their device, and a hash of the exact file — so a swapped document is provable rather than invisible. No more filing a photo of a piece of paper.
- Choose when payments go outPro
- Send each instalment yourself, let them release on their due date, or make the whole plan payable straight away. Free accounts send manually — the mode that can never surprise a couple with a charge.
- Proposals, not just invoicesSoon
- Send packages a couple can compare and accept, with the invoice and payment plan built from whichever one they pick.
- The shared run sheetSoon
- Once a couple books you, a live read-only view of their wedding day: your arrival and setup window, ceremony and reception times, the venue address, the coordinator's name and number, and today's guest count. It updates when they change it, and you are told when it does — no PDF, no group text, no 11pm email asking what time you arrive.
Being seen
- Post into the couples' feed
- Your real work appears in the same feed couples browse for ideas — with a link straight from the post to your bookable page.
- A social profile that sells
- Followers, comments and a profile that carries a button through to your services and availability.
- Profile view counts
- See how many couples looked, so you know whether the problem is reach or the page.
Running the business
- Lead pipeline
- Every enquiry from new to booked or archived, with the whole history attached.
- Notifications you control
- Email and push per event type — a new enquiry can ring, a follow-up can wait until you sit down.
- Stripe payouts
- Connect your account once. Money moves from the couple to you; we are not the middleman holding it.
- Your team, each on their own leadsSoon
- A venue is not one person. The owner, the booking manager and the day-of coordinator each get their own login and their own pipeline, instead of a single shared password and a guess about who is answering which couple. Built for venues and any business where more than one person needs to see a booking — it will sit on a plan of its own rather than being folded into Pro.
- Works on your phone
- The full portal in a browser, and your chat and profile inside The Veil app itself.
- Calendar sync & travel buffersSoon
- Two-way sync with the calendar you already keep.
- AI reply draftsSoon
- A first draft of your reply, in your voice, from the enquiry.
Straight answers
The questions worth asking first.
Including the one where we talk you out of the paid plan.
- What does it cost to be listed?
- Nothing, permanently. No listing fee, no lead fee, no contract and no minimum. You can claim your business, build a full storefront and take enquiries without paying anything — there is no paywall between a couple and your inbox.
- So how do you make money from a free vendor?
- We take 3% of a booking that is paid through the platform. If the couple pays you directly, we take nothing. You are never charged for a lead that goes nowhere, which is the opposite of paying up front for enquiries that may never reply.
- Do you resell my leads to my competitors?
- No. A couple who enquires with you is not simultaneously sold to four other businesses in your category. That practice is the entire revenue model of the directories, and declining to copy it is most of why this exists.
- Is Pro worth $500 a year?
- Only above a certain volume, and we would rather do that arithmetic for you than sell you the upgrade. Pro removes the 3% booking fee, so it pays for itself once you route roughly $16,700 a year through the platform on the annual plan, or $20,000 on the monthly one. Below that, stay on Free.
- What does Pro actually unlock?
- Four things, and we will not pad the list: no booking fee, the Verified badge on your storefront and in results, priority placement above free storefronts in your categories, and the choice to let scheduled instalments release automatically instead of sending each one yourself. Everything else in the portal ships to free accounts.
- Who holds the money?
- You do. Payments run through Stripe from the couple to your own connected account — we are not a middleman sitting on your deposits, and there is no payout schedule of ours for you to wait on.